Concert Under the Stars

Hey, Alexa! What are you doing with my data?... continued AMERICONNED

protection because of its inherent sensitivity and the potential for bias, discrimination, and other harmful uses. The FTC’s settlements with Amazon and Ring underscore that when the FTC says protecting biometric data is a priority, it means what it says – and the Commission will back up that policy with enforcement action.

Concert Under the Stars

@sbvalleycollege on June 17th, 2023 hosted by @ musicchanginglives and @ calworks_sbvc

Location: 701 S. Mt. Vernon San Bernardino CA 92410

Time: 5pm - 9pm

This month we’re having a Holy Voices: Battle of the Choir

***Free For All Ages***

Food, Vendors, Music & Art RSVP via link below eventbrite.com/e/concertunder-the-stars-tickets616697186887?aff=jovita

State of the Youth Conference

2023

@sbvalleycollege June 22-24, 2023

Location: 701 S. Mt. Vernon San Bernardino CA 92410

Time: 9am-5pm musicchanginglives.org/soty

Time: 6am - 8am Volunteer Here: musicchanginglives.org/eventinfo/hunger-relief-program

Changing Lives Showcase

August 18th @ San Bernadino Valley College Location: 701 S. Mt. Vernon San Bernardino CA 92410

Time: 5pm - 9pm changinglivesshowcase.com

Summer Music Classes and Tutoring

@Redlands Community Center Location: 111 W Lugonia Ave, Redlands, CA 9237 cityofredlands.org/post/musicchanging-lives

Hey, Alexa! What are you doing with my data?

By Elisa Jillson

What you say in your home, what you do in your home. It doesn’t get more private than that. But, according to two recent FTC complaints, Amazon and Ring used this highly private data – voice recordings collected by Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant and videos collected by Ring’s internet-connected home security cameras – to train their algorithms while giving short shrift to customers’ privacy. These matters, the first announced since the FTC’s new Biometric Policy Statement, contain important lessons for companies using AI, biometric data, and other sensitive information.

AI and privacy should work hand-in-hand. In this age of AI, developers want more and more data – oftentimes, no matter its source. But be careful when collecting or keeping consumer data. Under Section 5’s unfairness standard, the FTC doesn’t look just at AI’s potential benefits, but also at the costs to consumers. According to the complaints, Amazon and Ring failed that test. The FTC alleged Ring’s data access practices enabled spying and harassment, while Amazon’s permanent retention of voice data and shoddy deletion practices exposed consumers’ voice recordings to the risk of unnecessary employee access. The message for businesses: The FTC will hold companies accountable for how they obtain, retain, and use the consumer data that powers their algorithms.

As the Commissioners put it in their joint statement in the Alexa matter, machine learning is not a license to break the law.

The FTC uses every tool available to protect kids’ privacy. After a series of enforcement actions about kids’ and teen privacy (think Microsoft, Epic Games, Edmodo, Weight Watchers (Kurbo), and Chegg), it should be clear that protecting kids is a top FTC priority. That’s especially true at the intersection of AI and kid and teen privacy.

In the Amazon complaint, the FTC says Amazon was keeping kids’ voice recordings (both audio files and transcripts) permanently and undermining parents’ deletion rights. According to the complaint, Amazon could then use that data for natural language processing. In the Ring complaint, the FTC describes Ring’s cavalier approach to privacy and security, notwithstanding the fact that its cameras were marketed to watch over kids’ bedrooms. The FTC’s response? No dice. The FTC will use every available tool –including the COPPA Rule and the FTC Act’s prohibitions on deceptive and unfair practices –to protect kids’ privacy.

Want to keep your algorithms and data products? Get the data lawfully. With Ring and Alexa, as well as Kurbo, Cambridge Analytica, and Everalbum, the FTC has obtained numerous orders requiring companies to delete data and delete or refrain from generating data products, like algorithms, models, and other tools derived from illgotten data. These actions make clear that there are no free passes for data abuse. If you illegally obtain or misuse consumer data, you may well pay with your data product.

Directed by: Sean Claffey

Award-winning documentary AMERICONNED will open theatrically in New York (Cinema Village), Los Angeles (Laemmle Monica Film Center) and major cities on June 9 with a VOD release in the US and Canada to follow on major platforms on June 13.

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Consumers – not companies – control their data. Some companies think they’re free to use personal data in their possession for any purpose they choose. Not so fast. The FTC complaints against Amazon and Ring make clear that companies that ignore consumers’ rights to control their data do so at their peril. In its complaint, the FTC says Ring gave all employees and contractors access to customers’ videos to train algorithms (among other things) with only checkthe-box “consent.” But that’s not enough to ensure that users are really in control of what happens to their information. And in the Amazon complaint, the FTC says Amazon undermined parents’ rights under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule to delete their children’s voice recordings. Parents have the right under the COPPA Rule to decide what data about their children is stored by a company, and what data is deleted. The upshot is clear: Any company that undermines consumer control of their data can face FTC enforcement action.

Place special safeguards on human review and employee access to sensitive data. AI developers often rely on human reviewers to tag and annotate the data that trains machine learning algorithms. But do consumers know when their data is under review? In its complaint, the FTC says Ring hid this review from its customers and let reviewers abuse their access to consumers’ videos. As a result, Ring’s customers – who bought Ring’s products for more security – ended up being the target of Ring employees’ spying and surveillance. The Amazon complaint also says that Amazon didn’t use appropriate controls to limit which employees could access Alexa users’ voice recordings, so thousands of employees had access to sensitive voice recordings that they didn’t need. Companies relying on human review are on notice that safeguards for sensitive data, including strict access controls, can’t be an afterthought. They should be the first step.

The FTC protects biometric data. Last month, the FTC issued a policy statement on the protection of biometric data. That statement explains that biometric data – whether fingerprints and iris scans or videos and voice recordings – deserves the utmost

SAVE THE DATE! Bridging The Gap: Safety Symposium & Expo

Lifestyle/Religion News

Fontana, CA, June 9, 2023-

No topic is more important than the health, safety and well-being of a loved one, but especially a loved one with a special need. A variety of health and safety information along with valuable resources will be available at the Legacy Bridges Foundation, Inc. 1st Annual Bridging The Gap: Safety Symposium & Expo on Saturday, June 24th, 2023 10:00a.m.1:00p.m. at Entrepreneur High School located at 7775 Sierra Ave. Fontana, CA 92336. Sponsors for the event include Neurelis, Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP), American Medical Response (AMR), and A. Upland Fire Protection.

"The goal of our first annual Safety Symposium is to bring together medical and subject matter professionals to share and demonstrate the latest safety advancements and trends to better serve our communities,” said Executive Director Melanee Stovall. "The event will feature a wide variety of speakers and professionals from first responders American Medical Response Team, San Bernardino County Sheriff Department, Neurologist and Behavioral Interventionist; with the aim of disseminating safety practices to protect our family members in an emergency situation," she added.

The Legacy Bridges Foundation, Inc. (LBF) is a California 501(c)3 nonprofit

AMERICONNED: NEW TRAILER:

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AMERICONNED- NEW CLIP- AI and job loss in America.

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AMERICONNED- NEW CLIP- featuring TIME100 recipient Chris Smalls:

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AMERICONNED is a film about income inequality in the US and the tragic destabilizing effects to Americans. Radical inequality has led to radicalization at every level of society, and this powerful documentary depicts what happens when America hits its tipping point by looking back through our history at similar critical moments of instability. The labor movement of the past was born in times like these. We must restore the path to the once great middle class that now suffers in silence.

Despite an increase in productivity in recent decades, compensation for the American worker has been stagnant. In addition, 47% of American jobs are at high risk of being lost to automation and A.I. by the mid2030s.

In the United States, there has been an upward redistribution of over $50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1% over the last

40 years. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have created a protection racket for the rich, and corporations are deliberately crushing unions.

In this David vs. Goliath story, Chris Smalls leads a movement to unionize Amazon workers for the first time, after the corporation fired Smalls for speaking up for workers’ rights. They are inspiring legions of workers to, as the late, great Congressman John Lewis said, get into “good trouble.”

Director Sean Claffey has more than 25 years in the film industry spanning feature films, industry documentaries and commercials.

Shine the Light Films was formed in 2020, and is committed to producing quality documentaries that shine a light on injustices around the globe. More information: shinethelightfilms.com

Black scholar Cornel West announces

he’s

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According to the Epilepsy Foundation, "epilepsy affects 1 out of every 26 individuals; 3.4 million people nationwide, more than 65 million people globally, and 150,000 new cases are diagnosed in the United States each year."

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Historian and Philosophy professor Cornel West announced Monday that he is running for president in the 2024 election. The 70-year-old scholar disclosed in a video on Twitter that he is running as a candidate for the People’s Party, adding that he had “decided to run for truth and justice”.

“I come from a tradition where I care about you,” West said in the video. “I care about the quality of your life, I care about whether you have access to a job with a living wage, decent housing, women having control over their bodies, healthcare for all, de-escalating the destruction of the planet.”

Some of the activist’s policies outlined on his campaign website include stopping all foreign military aid, banning Nato, abolishing student debt, and introducing Medicare for All. He would also dwell on fighting to end poverty and mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, and guaranteeing housing.

West, who is now a professor of philosophy at Union Theological Seminary, previously taught at Princeton, Yale and Harvard. He is against both Democrats and Republicans and in 2016, he threw his weight behind then-Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. A progressive political activist, West’s works have focused on race and class in U.S. society. West’s announcement on Monday comes weeks after Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, announced that he would be running for president. On Monday, former Vice President Mike Pence also launched his campaign. Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are running again.